Lifeless Bulls eliminated by Celtics, face offseason full of questions

By Sean HighkinApr 29, 2017

The loudest the United Center got for the Bulls' final home game of the season had nothing to do with basketball but everything to do with the angst among Chicago's sports fanbase that has defined this weird, unpredictable, ultimately underwhelming season.

In the third quarter of the Bulls' 105-83 blowout loss to the Boston Celtics, which wrapped up their first-round playoff series in six games, brand-new Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky was shown on the Jumbotron. The boos rained down from the 10,000 or so fans in the crowd (not an exaggeration — the place was half full, if that). It's not his fault — he didn't ask the Bears to trade four picks to move up to draft him. But being around the Bulls has a way of making fans jaded, fatalistic and ready to assume the worst about everybody and everything.

There was plenty of booing at other points throughout the night. Some “Fire Hoiberg” chants, too. Unless Avisail Garcia is on...

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